Oh such a golden Mothers Day garden in my front garden! Still 50 pots to go but needed a drink of water it was so warm. The perfume from those all gold tulips is very strong so I am sitting typing in a haze of perfumed perspiration! Here is a preview. sun was too bright to get really good pictures.
Very little gets thrown out if it will hold plants, chicky. In the front garden there is an old zinc baby bath full of daffs at the moment, two leaking zinc watering cans planted with double daisies and Californian poppies, an old enamel breadbin full of tulips,an old rusty iron wheelbarrow full of tulips, stipa tenuissima grass and polyanthus. an old tyre with Dutch irises about to flower as well as the old garden coffee table in the porch. The back garden has chimney pots full of flowers too. .. Glad you like my celebrations, Green Fingered Milkey and Ashleigh 2.
The lovely warm weather we had in Bristol for Mothers Day yesterday did the trick and this morning all three of the "outdoor tomatoes" for the Mr Fothergills trial have germinated. TIm Foster wrote in the "Guardian" yesterday that Bristol was the place to live if you had green fingers and I have to agree with him. As we drove through the city the daffodils were in bloom everywhere and the verges and roundabouts and front gardens were glorious. Bristol most certainly deserved the accolade of Green City of Europe for 2015 and just think, as soon as my Golden Jubilee Garden celebrations are over I can start celebrating that!
I applied for the Britains Best Gardens program with Alan Titchmarsh but my email came straight back as too big so I tried again this morning and so far so good. I thought it would be lovely if you could all see what I have been up to in moving pictures and I am sure Alan and i have lots in common as we share a gardening jubilee. Cloudy today but warm and calm so good weather for pruning the buddleia to get late flowers for nectar for the butterflies when food is scarce in the autumn. The loppers were inadequate so had to get my garden saw out. Lots of seedlings needing pricked out so planted more polyanthus in the slate scree to get their pots. I have earthed up my "Charlotte"potatoes in their planter and as the temperature is due to be 16 again this afternoon I think I can put their rivals out in their raised bed. Their are 5 tubers of each so will compare when and how much i get from the two lots.
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Oh such a golden Mothers Day garden in my front garden! Still 50 pots to go but needed a drink of water it was so warm. The perfume from those all gold tulips is very strong so I am sitting typing in a haze of perfumed perspiration! Here is a preview. sun was too bright to get really good pictures.
What a beautiful gatden happymarion, such lovely flowers. Thank you for sharing
Love the way you have displayed everything in layers and tiers - i must keep a look out for some old tables and stools to copy your idea
Absolutely gorgeous
Very little gets thrown out if it will hold plants, chicky. In the front garden there is an old zinc baby bath full of daffs at the moment, two leaking zinc watering cans planted with double daisies and Californian poppies, an old enamel breadbin full of tulips,an old rusty iron wheelbarrow full of tulips, stipa tenuissima grass and polyanthus. an old tyre with Dutch irises about to flower as well as the old garden coffee table in the porch. The back garden has chimney pots full of flowers too. .. Glad you like my celebrations, Green Fingered Milkey and Ashleigh 2.
Happy Mothers Day from my Golden Jubilee Garden.
The lovely warm weather we had in Bristol for Mothers Day yesterday did the trick and this morning all three of the "outdoor tomatoes" for the Mr Fothergills trial have germinated. TIm Foster wrote in the "Guardian" yesterday that Bristol was the place to live if you had green fingers and I have to agree with him. As we drove through the city the daffodils were in bloom everywhere and the verges and roundabouts and front gardens were glorious. Bristol most certainly deserved the accolade of Green City of Europe for 2015 and just think, as soon as my Golden Jubilee Garden celebrations are over I can start celebrating that!
Working in the front garden this morning the cat from across the way decided it was too good a photo
opportunity to miss!
I applied for the Britains Best Gardens program with Alan Titchmarsh but my email came straight back as too big so I tried again this morning and so far so good. I thought it would be lovely if you could all see what I have been up to in moving pictures and I am sure Alan and i have lots in common as we share a gardening jubilee. Cloudy today but warm and calm so good weather for pruning the buddleia to get late flowers for nectar for the butterflies when food is scarce in the autumn. The loppers were inadequate so had to get my garden saw out. Lots of seedlings needing pricked out so planted more polyanthus in the slate scree to get their pots. I have earthed up my "Charlotte"potatoes in their planter and as the temperature is due to be 16 again this afternoon I think I can put their rivals out in their raised bed. Their are 5 tubers of each so will compare when and how much i get from the two lots.